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    Christianity Made Jesus’ Mission As Taking People to Heaven, Instead of Bringing Heaven to the World
    Christianity Made Jesus’ Mission As Taking People to Heaven, Instead of Bringing Heaven to the World
    Christianity Made Jesus’ Mission As Taking People to Heaven, Instead of Bringing Heaven to the World
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    Christianity Made Jesus’ Mission As Taking People to Heaven, Instead of Bringing Heaven to the World

    By Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

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    Jesus, the Son of God, came primarily for one Mission. His mission is “to do the will of God.”

    The will of God is not for Jesus to take the people of the world to the kingdom of heaven, more than to bring the kingdom of heaven to the people of the world.

    It is a kind of world where “not a single soul ought to be found wanting in the enjoyment of the basic needs and rights to live with full human dignity as a child of God,” for such is the righteousness and justice of God.

    And in order for the kingdom of God to happen in our world, Jesus gave the world a command: “Love one another as I have loved you.”

    It is a kind of love where “he who needs help, must be helped, and he who can help, must help”—like one brother and sister in God.

    Whoever shall follow Jesus in this “Mission of Life” of his shall be rewarded with fullness of life.

    Amen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRodolfo Martin Vitangcol
    Release dateJan 14, 2019
    ISBN9780463439548
    Christianity Made Jesus’ Mission As Taking People to Heaven, Instead of Bringing Heaven to the World
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    Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

    RODOLFO MARTIN VITANGCOL spent his high school in the seminary, and worked his way through college, graduating with a BSC degree in Commerce majoring in Accounting at the Philippine College of Commerce.He worked with a foreign bank [Bank of America] for six years before pursuing a career in sales. In sales, he joined U-Bix Corporation and John Clements Consultants, and, for some time, also went into a build-and-sell business. After about six years in sales, he put up a training firm [FILIPINO SALESMASTERS CONSULTANTS which has now been changed into ATTITUDINALIST TRAINING CENTER] specializing in salesmanship, attitude, leadership, and customer service programs.In a span of 30 years now as a professional trainor, Mr. Vitangcol has already trained more than 200 companies to more or less 50,000 employees throughout the Philippines.

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      Christianity Made Jesus’ Mission As Taking People to Heaven, Instead of Bringing Heaven to the World - Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

      Christianity made Jesus’ Mission as taking people to heaven, instead of bringing heaven to the world

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      Text copyright @ 2019 Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

      All Rights Reserved

      This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

      Unless otherwise noted, biblical quotations are from the Christian Community Bible: Catholic Pastoral Edition, 2005,

      By the Pastoral Bible Foundation in the Philippines, and are used by permission.

      Published by Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

      E-MAIL:  rodolfovitangcol@gmail.com

      PREFACE

      Two thousand years have passed since Jesus came to save our world, and yet our world has gone even much more miserable than when Jesus left it.

      All you see around are poverty and oppression getting ever wider and deeper, as greed and corruption get ever bolder and meaner.

      In all of these, where is Jesus, the said Messiah of the world?  What has he been doing?

      He is there locked up in church, content with spewing up spiritual words that nobody listens to, aiming to save the souls of men, not the world from its ever-deepening hunger and misfortune.  And who locked him up there?  The Christianity of Paul.

      If the Jews had crucified the Living Jesus, Paul’s Christianity had murdered the Risen Christ!

      Behold in these twelve series of books THE TWELVE DESTRUCTIONS Paul’s Christianity had brought upon the person and the true Mission of Jesus.

      JESUS MUST RISE!  For as long as Jesus remains buried beneath the lies and hypocrisies of Paul’s Christianity, the world is doomed to its inevitable destruction.

      And must Jesus rise now, while the wood is still green.

      Amen. 

      This book with the title of:

      Christianity made Jesus’ Mission as taking people to heaven, instead of bringing heaven to the world

      Is

      Destruction No. 5 of 12

      Of

      Christianity Destroyed Jesus

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      The TWELVE DESTRUCTIONS Christianity Had Done Upon the Person and Mission of Jesus

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      DESTRUCTION 1:

      The God of the Old Testament is not the Father of Jesus

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      DESTRUCTION # 2:

      Paul Destroyed Jesus

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      DESTRUCTION # 3: 

      Christianity presented a most confusing bible and called it—the Word of God

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      DESTRUCTION # 4:

      Christianity mainly saw Jesus as God, others as man, and still others as teacher but never a God

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      DESTRUCTION # 5: 

      Christianity made Jesus’ Mission as taking people to heaven, instead of bringing heaven to the world

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      DESTRUCTION # 6:

      Christianity treated ‘Life on Earth’ as somewhat like a burden—not a gift, while treating ‘Eternal Life in Heaven’ as the gift—not as a reward for doing God’s will

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      DESTRUCTION # 7: 

      Christianity turned Jesus’ Mission into a ‘Church,’ that whosoever shall enter, shall be saved; instead of ‘Life’ that whosoever needs help—be helped, and whosoever can help—help

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      DESTRUCTION # 8: 

      Christianity turned God and Jesus into a religion and locked them up in church, never to meddle in political affairs, much less rule the world

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      DESTRUCTION # 9:

      Christianity taught people they were saved by Jesus’ blood and resurrection, rather than by repentance and pursuing the works of Jesus’ Mission

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      DESTRUCTION # 10: 

      Christianity made God a ‘Servant’ whose seeming duty is to serve man, rather than a ‘Master’ whose will for the world we all must pursue as God’s loving servants

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      DESTRUCTION # 11: 

      Christianity looked to reading the bible and belief in God as the answer to obtaining a bountiful life, to the neglect of obeying the Law of Nature that governs all life

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      DESTRUCTION # 12: 

      Christianity’s church leaders prostituted the name of God into a most lucrative business enterprise—living like kings and queens, not servants—under the guise of spreading the Gospel of Christ

      THE TRUTH

      Jesus, the Son of God, came primarily for one Mission.  His mission is to do the will of God.

      The will of God is not for Jesus to take the people of the world to the kingdom of heaven, more than to bring the kingdom of heaven to the people of the world.

      It is a kind of world where not a single soul ought to be found wanting in the enjoyment of the basic needs and rights to live with full human dignity as a child of God, for such is the righteousness and justice of God.

      And in order for the kingdom of God to happen in our world, Jesus gave the world a command: Love one another as I have loved you.

      It is a kind of love where he who needs help, must be helped, and he who can help, must help—like one brother and sister in God.

      Whoever shall follow Jesus in this Mission of Life of his for the world shall be rewarded with a most bountiful life in this present age and an eternal life in the world to come.  Jesus simply calls it—FULLNESS OF LIFE.

      Amen.

      Life Mission,

      Not Spiritual Mission

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      The most tragic thing that can ever befall a man is:  He does not only suffer a lot in this world, he even forfeits his soul.  Jesus came for both:  To liberate man from his sufferings and save him from his sins.  Jesus calls it simply—"FULLNESS OF LIFE."  And this is the very Mission of Jesus:  A MISSION OF LIFE FOR THE WORLD.

      The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.                John 10:10 [NIV]

      You will notice that as Jesus preaches the word with his lips, he too preaches it with his hands.  As Jesus gives you the word of God, he too shall give you the food of the earth.  This is Jesus’ full meaning of "salvation for the world"—the liberation of man’s body from the pains of earthly suffering, and the salvation of man’s soul from the evils of sin and corruption.  For what good is a soul filled with the word of God, yet dwelling in a wretched body; or a body filled with the bread of the earth, yet being dwelt in by a rotten soul?  Jesus’ Mission is not a SPIRITUAL MISSION, more than a LIFE MISSION.

      If the church really insists that Jesus came mainly with a SPIRITUAL MISSION, then she ought to save the poor and the oppressed from their social, economic, and political impoverishment and oppression, and save the lost and the wicked from their enslavement to moral degradation and self-glorification, for that is where man’s SPIRIT IS ACHING

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